Michael Schmid

TL;DR: The general part of the manuscript is followed by the more detailed presentation of specific examples for the selection and interaction of roots and microbes, such as in the rhizosphere of strawberry, potato and oilseed rape, where the soil-borne plant pathogen Verticillium dahliae can cause high yield losses; the potential of biocontrol by specific constituents of the Rhizosphere microbial community is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The results provide atomic-scale verification of a general mechanism originally proposed by Mars and van Krevelen in 1954 and are likely to be of general relevance for the mechanism of catalytic reactions at oxide surfaces.

TL;DR: It is found that in the fish medaka the Y chromosome-specific region spans only about 280 kb and contains a duplicated copy of the autosomal DMRT1 gene, named D MRT1Y, which is the only functional gene in this chromosome segment and maps precisely to the male sex-determining locus.

TL;DR: Lorenz Hiltner is recognized as the first scientist to coin the term “rhizosphere” in 1904 and his ideas and contributions are as fresh as they were more than 100 years ago.

TL;DR: With scanning tunneling microscopy, the nature of O2 molecules on the surface of anatase (titanium oxide, TiO2) doped with niobium are observed, transformed, and identified in conjunction with theory.